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How Self Made Millionaires Succeed–Are You Making One of These Mistakes?

30. January 2012

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Erica’s note: This is a guest post from Jaime Tardy, who blogs at EventualMillionaire.com. I thought it would be interesting to get some perspectives from other people who have had success, both online and off, so I invited Jaime to post this based on her huge archive of interviews. Links to the full interviews are [...]

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One (Common) Marketing Tactic That Can Ruin Your Business…

24. January 2012

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Scott McNealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO, and Larry Ellison of Oracle announce a closer partnership in 2006, which led to Oracle acquiring Sun in 2009. There’s one (unfortunately common) marketing tactic out there that can actually take down your entire business. This is the true story of how I watched it unfold at a Fortune [...]

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Turn Off the Noise and Start Creating

12. October 2011

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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” -The Serenity Prayer Let’s talk about current events. There’s a lot going on in the news right now. The 99% (aka Occupy Wall Street) movement. A backlash against big corporations, [...]

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My 30-Day No Email Trial: The Results

22. August 2011

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In early June, I embarked on a radical experiment: I gave up email for 30 days. Here are my results… When I started the trial, I felt completely overwhelmed by email, and I just wanted a way out. I was waking up every morning to an incessant barrage of PR people, sales letters, chain emails, [...]

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Dear California: I’m Leaving You. Here’s Why…

4. August 2011

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I’ve lived in California for my entire adult life, beginning way back when I was a naive 18-year-old living in the dorms of San Jose State University. (Talk about culture shock…coming from a small farm town in Indiana to the inner city of downtown San Jose!) In 2009, after living in the Bay Area for [...]

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